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Top institutions in the United Kingdom for Languages & Linguistics

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Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Languages & Linguistics?

110 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main subfield is Languages & Linguistics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.6% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 2nd of 40 countries in the subfield. 100 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University College London has the most (8), followed by Lancaster University (7) and University of Warwick (7). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
110
0.6% of all in the United Kingdom
In the global top 100,000
100
90.9% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 40 countries in Languages & Linguistics
Highest-ranked
#163
Hyland, Ken
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1University College London88#4Dewaele, Jean Marc #314
2Lancaster University76#7Fairclough, Norman L. #2,817
3University of Warwick77#9Ushioda, Ema #13,450
4University of Reading66#15Jones, Rodney H. #29,435
5University of Leeds66#16Lamb, Martin #45,789
6UCL Institute of Education55#17Wei, Li #518
7Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University53#20Culpeper, Jonathan #5,067
8University of Nottingham44#23Dörnyei, Zoltán #485
9University of Oxford44#25Rose, Heath #4,296
10University of York44#31Drew, Paul #22,955
11University of Birmingham44#34Littlemore, Jeannette #54,512
12University of Exeter32#46Galloway, Nicola #15,109
13King's College London33#53Georgakopoulou, Alexandra #27,113
14College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences33#55Sorace, Antonella #28,379
15The Open University32#59Lillis, Theresa M. #54,801

The top 100 in Languages & Linguistics in the United Kingdom, in order

  1. 1
    Hyland, Ken
    University of East Anglia
  2. 2
    Dewaele, Jean Marc
    University College London
  3. 3
    Dörnyei, Zoltán
    University of Nottingham
  4. 4
    Wei, Li
    UCL Institute of Education
  5. 5
    Fairclough, Norman L.
    Lancaster University
  6. 6
    Schmitt, Norbert
    University of Nottingham
  7. 7
    Kress, Gunther R.
    University of London
  8. 8
    Rose, Heath
    University of Oxford
  9. 9
    Culpeper, Jonathan
    Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
  10. 10
    Macaro, Ernesto
    University of Oxford
  11. 11
    Baker, Will
    University of Southampton
  12. 12
    Skehan, Peter
    University College London
  13. 13
    Kendon, Adam
    University of Cambridge
  14. 14
    Ushioda, Ema
    University of Warwick
  15. 15
    Flowerdew, John L.
    Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
  16. 16
    Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan
    University of Bath, Department of Education
  17. 17
    Galloway, Nicola
    University of Exeter
  18. 18
    Rothman, Jason L.
    Lancaster University
  19. 19
    Jenkins, Jennifer
    University of Southampton
  20. 20
    Block, David
    Academy of Social Sciences
  21. 21
    O'Halloran, Kay L.
    University of Liverpool
  22. 22
    Byram, Michael S.
    Faculty of Social Sciences & Health
  23. 23
    Holliday, Adrian
    Canterbury Christ Church University
  24. 24
    Liddicoat, Anthony J.
    University of Warwick
  25. 25
    Drew, Paul
    University of York
  26. 26
    McKinley, Jim
    UCL Institute of Education
  27. 27
    Charteris-Black, Jonathan
    University of the West of England
  28. 28
    Cook, Vivian J.
    Newcastle University
  29. 29
    Georgakopoulou, Alexandra
    King's College London
  30. 30
    Sorace, Antonella
    College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  31. 31
    Wilson, Deirdre
    University College London
  32. 32
    Jones, Rodney H.
    University of Reading
  33. 33
    Leech, Geoffrey N.
    University College London
  34. 34
    Stokoe, Elizabeth H.
    London School of Economics and Political Science
  35. 35
    Coupland, Nikolas
    Cardiff University
  36. 36
    Spencer-Oatey, Helen
    University of Warwick
  37. 37
    Hua, Zhu
    University College London
  38. 38
    Wingate, Ursula
    King's College London
  39. 39
    Semino, Elena
    Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
  40. 40
    Tupas, Ruanni
    UCL Institute of Education
  41. 41
    Forchtner, Bernhard
    University of Leicester
  42. 42
    Musolff, Andreas
    University of East Anglia
  43. 43
    Březina, Vaclav
    Lancaster University
  44. 44
    Mills, Sara
    Sheffield Hallam University
  45. 45
    Lamb, Martin
    University of Leeds
  46. 46
    Evans, Vyvyan
    University of Sussex
  47. 47
    Treffers-Daller, Jeanine
    University of Reading
  48. 48
    Graham, Suzanne
    University of Reading
  49. 49
    Carston, Robyn
    UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
  50. 50
    Hart, Christopher
    Lancaster University
  51. 51
    Walsh, Steve
    Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
  52. 52
    Edwards, Derek
    Loughborough University
  53. 53
    Gray, John
    University College London
  54. 54
    KhosraviNik, Majid
    Newcastle University
  55. 55
    Littlemore, Jeannette
    University of Birmingham
  56. 56
    Lillis, Theresa M.
    The Open University
  57. 57
    Kusters, Annelies
    Heriot-Watt University
  58. 58
    Jaworska, Sylvia
    University of Reading
  59. 59
    Ruth Ruth E. Page, Ruth E.
    University of Birmingham
  60. 60
    Pellicer-Sánchez, Ana
    UCL Institute of Education
  61. 61
    Da̧browska, Ewa
    University of Birmingham
  62. 62
    Munday, Jeremy M.
    University of Leeds
  63. 63
    Gkonou, Christina
    University of Essex
  64. 64
    Révész, Andrea
    University College London
  65. 65
    Isaacs, Talia
    UCL Institute of Education
  66. 66
    Banegas, Dario Luis
    College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  67. 67
    Kendrick, Kobin H.
    University of York
  68. 68
    Matras, Yaron
    Aston University
  69. 69
    Rampton, Ben
    King's College London
  70. 70
    Flowerdew, Lynne
    Lancaster University
  71. 71
    Hutchby, Ian
    University of York
  72. 72
    Tavakoli, Parvaneh
    University of Reading
  73. 73
    Taylor, Charlotte
    University of Sussex
  74. 74
    Creese, Angela
    University of Warwick
  75. 75
    Braun, Sabine
    University of Surrey
  76. 76
    Durrant, Philip
    University of Exeter
  77. 77
    Marsden, Emma J.
    University of Oxford
  78. 78
    Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen
    University of Leeds
  79. 79
    Crystal, David
    Bangor University
  80. 80
    King, Jim
    University of Leicester
  81. 81
    Aizawa, Ikuya
    University of Nottingham
  82. 82
    Vieira, Lucas Nunes
    University of Bristol
  83. 83
    Hunston, Susan
    University of Birmingham
  84. 84
    Nerlich, Brigitte
    University of Nottingham
  85. 85
    Díaz-Cintas, Jorge
    University College London
  86. 86
    Kubanyiova, Magdalena
    University of Leeds
  87. 87
    Schmid, Monika Susanne
    University of York
  88. 88
    Cameron, Lynne J.
    University of Leeds
  89. 89
    Sahan, Kari
    University of Reading
  90. 90
    Blackledge, Adrian
    University of Warwick
  91. 91
    Mann, Steve
    University of Warwick
  92. 92
    Tsimpli, Ianthi Maria
    University of Cambridge
  93. 93
    Charles, Maggie
    University of Oxford
  94. 94
    Pecorari, Diane
    University of Leeds
  95. 95
    Joseph, John Earl
    College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  96. 96
    Tagg, Caroline
    The Open University
  97. 97
    Olohan, Maeve
    The University of Manchester
  98. 98
    Anderson, Jason
    University of Warwick
  99. 99
    Consoli, Sal
    The University of Edinburgh
  100. 100
    Koller, Veronika
    Lancaster University

110 listed scientists in Languages & Linguistics in the United Kingdom

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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